4. Choose your word, begin visual and verbal research, rough out an idea, play with Stopmotion. (Each team will need 2 hours at a Stopmotion station)

5. Discuss results in team meetings; plan and complete final shooting.

6: Edit in IMovie; refine audio.

7: Final draft due. Class critique followed by written self-assessment.

For self-assessment, answer the following questions:

What is the most compelling aspect of your final piece? What makes it compelling?

What is the least compelling? What is wrong with it, and how can it be changed?

Is there anything you would like to add, subtract, and expand in your movie?

What technical, compositional and conceptual skills do you most need to acquire?

How do you plan to acquire these skills?

Example B: Soundstage

Problem: Maximum movie length is 3 minutes. Half of the time the screen will be blank: no image. How can sound create a bridge between periods of image and no image? what else can sound do? Work will be done in teams of two or three.

Objectives

To explore types and effects of sound

To create compelling relationships between visual and audio

To be relentlessly creative, witty. I am boxing you in: push the limitations set!